Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life
Tonight I have a picture to back up this one. We were on the way to a birthday party and Lexi pipes up, “Daddy, it’s ok, Daddy’s, it’s ok.” We look back and Lexi has taken a bite out of the birthday card which led to me saying:
“Lexi, you ate the birthday card! You don’t eat birthday cards, that’s not nice!”
OK, this is going to be a “series” of journal entries. There are several posts on one or two guys that need to be posted together. So here goes…this is REALLY long so you’ll have to “read more” to get the whole thing.
We had a nice day today. FIL came and got the kids and I headed to get my aunt. We went clothes shopping for about 5 hours in 3 different stores. She got a lot of really good deals for my cousin’s girlfriend and I had a great time picking out stuff and not spending money on it! I couldn’t leave empty handed of course and ended up with stuff for the house. I got new bath rugs, shower curtain, vase for the dining room, picture for Emma’s room, a pillow…oh, and a new purse. I actually had a really, really good time with her.
I never thought her and I had much in common but I found out we both like shopping yet are quite indecisive, hence the long shopping trip, we both are weight-conscious and don’t find it extremely hard to moderate what we eat (unlike my mom, sister and grandmother), and we both love peanut butter. Small, random facts, but I think they count.
We got done shopping about the same time Scott woke up from working last night so I drove my aunt to meet up with my mom and I went home. Scott and I headed to get the girls. Scott had slept so long though, he was back off to work about an hour later. Mom, Dad, Heather and my aunt all came over this evening and cooked steaks on the grill, went swimming and then we all went out for ice cream.
Speaking of moderating my food, the past two days with my aunt her has sacrificed any idea of a diet. I had been down 1/2 lb below goal at one point this week so let myself have more than I have been lately but I think today put me over the edge. All ending with a peanut butter and hot fudge sundae at the ice cream place. Ice cream is definitely my Achilles’ heel. So hopefully I’ll get back on track on Monday.
I don’t think I have much to report on besides that. After preparing for Sunday School tomorrow morning, I’ve been trying to pick some more “Vintage Amy” posts this evening and I literally have been laughing out loud to myself. At 14 it was simply boys, boys, boys. Geesh.
These are all taken while Emma and I are playing doctor with Polly Pocket characters. She was the dr and I was the nurse.
Emma: The dolls are falling down! This is a silly situation!
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Emma: Put these high heels on. She’s going to look so high-heely.
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Me: OK, dr, we’ve seen all our patients. What should we do?
Emma: I don’t know
Me: I think we should go shopping.
Emma (coming out of character): Uh, mommy, doctors don’t go shopping.
Me: Well then what should I do?
Emma: You should go arrange stickers. Do you know what arrange means? It means to put stuff out.
Me: Is that what nurses are supposed to do?
Emma: Yes
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Me: What is wrong with Polly, doctor?
Emma (out of character): um, mommy, what is wrong with her?
Me (out of character and with my hand on my chin): the flu
Emma: duhflu?
Me (laughing): No, the flu.
Emma: Can we just call it duhflu?
Me: Yes, that’s fine.
Emma (back in character): Ok, Polly has duhflu
Last night we ended up going out to eat with my Mom, aunt and sister. It was sort of girls night out thing. The local restaurant was extremely busy and we ended up ordering while we were still waiting for a table. Our food came out right before we sat down so it actually worked out pretty nicely. Sit down and there’s your food. Lexi fell asleep after she ate though. Which was nice for the restaurant but then she woke up at home right after 9 and didn’t want to go back to sleep until 11:30 or so. I had planned to touch up my hair and finish cleaning the house but I had to lay down with her in my bed to convince her to go back to sleep and I didn’t wake up until 3:30 this morning. So now I’m sitting here doing my hair, trying to get ready before FIL picks up the girls for the day.
Then my orders are to take my aunt shopping for my cousin’s girlfriend who apparently doesn’t have much support from her family so my aunt tries to fill in the gaps. Me, go shopping? Why, yes, I can help! So today should be fun. The only bad part is my aunt is extremely meticulous. She’s one of those that looks at every. single. thing. She was in Garden Ridge yesterday for like 5 hours. No lie.
Alrighty, Emma is calling me to play and since she’ll be gone for the day, I’m going to go sit and play Polly Pocket for a moment….by the way, I did this last night with her and wrote down some things she said. I’ll have to post that later…
It’s not normal as of late but I don’t have much to report for tonight.
My aunt is in town and we all went out for lunch and then she came over here with Mom and Heather this evening. In between, I’ve been working on the youth group’s podcast. It’s a long and irritating story but someone uninstalled our video capture software off of our computer at the church so it’s taking me twice as long to do it this week.
The girls are spending the night with my mom so I’m hoping to get some good sleep tonight.
Ya’ll, other than that, I don’t have much to say, so good night!
Mark Gungor is a speaker/singer/former pastor who speaks on marriages. Somehow my parents found him on Life TV or something like that. It was an hour or so show. It was so funny my mom went straight to his web site and bought the 4 disc DVD set. I’ve watched two of four of the discs and let me just say, this is HILARIOUS. It was the kind where you clap your hands, slap your knee and nudge your partner kind of laughing. You should watch it whether or not you have marriage issues, it is just extremely entertaining and even eye-opening. Simple things you thought only you and your partner goes through seems to be a universal issue. He talks in one about the “Tale of two brains”, talking about the differences between men in women in things like communication and s-e-x drive. In the second disk it is called “Yo Momma” giving the top 5 list of ways to have the best s-e-x you’ve ever had. Yes, it’s very entertaining and I highly recommend it…
I got the black hair last night and then I sang in our youth band tonight. Neither are related but someone did make a comment that I looked more rocker-ish now…let’s hope it’s less Ozzy-ish and more Kat Von Dish. I should have painted my nails black and put on red lipstick.
Anyway, the entire afternoon and evening was spent at church. The guys in the band asked if I would sing with the band two weeks ago. I sort of ignored them, sure they were joking with the old-lady youth leader, and then they asked again last week if I would come to practice. I wasn’t sure if any other youth had volunteered which is the optimal choice but I didn’t want to leave them hanging tonight. And hey, I DO like singing and usually manage to hit a few good notes when I sing. Although before tonight I had never held a microphone to sing and have only sung as part of school and church choirs starting in middle school.
At first, I was having a really hard time singing. I wasn’t belting it and the other guy that had ended up showing didn’t really know how to lead either. We sounded like two 8 year olds singing to a cassette tape in their bedroom.
Yeah, that good.
And then a girl got up with us and while she was good at timing, I don’t think she hit one note, bless her heart. The other youth dragged her away from the stage and the guy singing with me’s girlfriend got up and sang with me. She used to sing with St when he was there but she hadn’t been at practice in a long time. After she got up, I did much better. She was familiar with singing with the band on those songs, so she knew when to come in more than we did..which wasn’t hard.
Practice was generally horrible though. We had a hard time knowing when to come in as all we had was chord sheets to follow and none of us stayed on tune the whole time. But once youth group started and we did the 4 song set and we did purdy darn good. It was far from perfect. We ended songs in mid-sentence as the players weren’t sure whether to do the bridge one more time and all of us were not singing in tune the whole time and one song we missed almost a whole verse.
It wasn’t pretty.
But we tried and with the whole youth group singing, no one hardly noticed. It’s sort of a joke in our youth group that no one can keep time and no one can stay on tune so there’s no high expectations, they just need someone to lead.
So anyway, I’m going to go next week to practice hopefully with the other two youth singers and we’ll be a lot better.
And to be honest, I sort of dig the whole being on stage singing thing. But shh, don’t tell anyone.